Technical Architecture Group (TAG)
The TAG has 9 members (5 elected, 3 appointed, and 1 chair) plus a staff contact:
- Tim Berners-Lee (W3C) (Chair)
- Noah Mendelsohn (IBM) (Chair)2
- Dan Connolly (W3C) (staff contact)
- John Kemp (Nokia)1
- Ashok Malhotra (Oracle)2
- Larry Masinter (Adobe)1
- Jonathan Rees (Science Commons)2
- T. V. Raman (Google)1
- Henry Thompson (U. of Edinburgh)2
- 1 Two-year term begins 1 Feb 2009 (see election results).
- 2 Two-year term began 1 Feb 2008 (see election results).
- Dan Connolly provides staff support for the TAG as of 1 February 2008.
- As of 1 February 2009, the Director has not appointed one person to the TAG.
The TAG thanks
outgoing members Stuart
Williams (HP), Norm Walsh (Mark Logic), and David Orchard.
Meetings and Mailing Lists
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Weekly TAG teleconference Thursdays, 13:00
Boston time, for 90 minutes
The agenda is due to www-tag 24
hours in advance; minutes follow within a day or two.
- Upcoming face-to-face meetings:
- Recent face-to-face meetings:
See also: W3C Events Calendar · Holidays and Festivals·
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www-tag (archive)
is the TAG's public list where it conducts work and engages in
discussions on its work with the community. Use W3C mailing list mechanics to
subscribe etc.
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public-tag-announce (archive,
RSS feed) is used for announcements from the TAG of minutes,
meeting summaries, findings, new issues, resolved issues, and
drafts of architecture documents. Note: Announcements will also go to
www-tag.
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public-webarch-comments (archive)
is used for review comments on the Architecture Document.
The W3C archive
editing policy is quite conservative; W3C will remove a messge to
these lists only in extreme circumstances.
Documents and Issues
Current work includes:
The TAG issue list shows issues
that the TAG plans to address; by charter,
issues are addes to this list by majority vote.
Lower priory work includes:
About the TAG: Charter, History
The TAG charter was added to W3C process July 2001:
W3C has created the TAG to document and build consensus around principles of Web architecture and
to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary, to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought
to the TAG, and to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C.
Our work from 2001 to 2004 culminated in:
- Architecture of the World Wide Web,
Volume One W3C Recommendation 15 Dec 2004
Abstract:
The World Wide Web uses relatively simple technologies with
sufficient scalability, efficiency and utility that they have resulted
in a remarkable information space of interrelated resources, growing
across languages, cultures, and media. In an effort to preserve these
properties of the information space as the technologies evolve, this
architecture document discusses the core design components of the
Web. They are identification of resources, representation of resource
state, and the protocols that support the interaction between agents
and resources in the space. We relate core design components,
constraints, and good practices to the principles and properties they
support.
Since then, significant events include:
2009
2008
2007
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New Issue:
webApplicationState-60 opened 2007-12-13
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TAG meeting
5th-10th November
2007, Cambridge, MA, during the TPAC . Mon
am,
pm (with
HCLSIG), Tue
am,
pm(with WSC - WSC
minutes), Fri am
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TAG meeting 17-19th September, University of Southampton, UK. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
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Misc writings: "Review of XHTML
Modularization" relevant to XMLVersioning-41 (@@move to issues list)
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New Issue scalabilityOfURIAccess-58 2007-08-22
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New Issue httpRedirections-57 2007-08-22
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TAG meeting 30th May - 1 June, Mountain View, CA, USA hosted by Google. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday am.
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TAG meeting 6-7 March, Cambridge, MA, USA. Tuesday,
Wednedsay am and pm
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New issue utf7Encoding-55
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Approved TAG finding The use of Metadata in URIs
2006
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TAG meeting 11-13 Dec., Cambridge, MA, USA
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Issue metadataInURI-31 resolved
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Approved TAG finding On Linking Alternative Representations To Enable
Discovery And Publishing
Issue genericResources-53 resolved
- Oct 2006 summary
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TAG meeting 4-5 Oct.,Vancouver, BC, Canada
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New issue TagSoupIntegration-54
- Jul 2006 summary
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TAG meeting 12-14 Jun., Amherst, MA, USA
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New issue genericResources-53, new draft finding: On Linking Alternative Formats To Enable Discovery And Publishing
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New issue passwordsInTheClear-52
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Approved TAG finding Authoritative Metadata
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Issue putMediaType-38 resolved
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Issue namespaceState-48
resolved
- Mar 2006 TAG finding The Disposition of Names in an XML Namespace published
as a W3C Working Draft
- TAG meeting 27 Feb & 3 Mar 2006, Mandelieu, France
- Feb 2006
Approved TAG finding: The Rule of Least Power
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Jan 2006
summary
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The Disposition of Names in an XML Namespace TAG finding approved Jan 2006
2005
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TAG meeting 5-6 December 2005, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
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TAG meeting 20-22 September 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Jun 2005
summary
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Issue httpRange-14 resolved
- TAG meeting 14-16 June 2005, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Apr 2005 New issue standardizedFieldValues-51
- Mar 2005New issue URNsAndRegistries-50
- TAG meeting 28 February 2005 in Boston, MA, USA, during the Tech Plenary 2005
- Feb 2005 New issues nameSpaceState-48, schemeProtocols-49
- Jan 2005
New issue endPointRefs-47
These materials are largely out of date:
Tim Berners-Lee, Noah Mendelsohn, co-chairs
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